Window launched as a site-specific minimalist exhibition space, with the aim to stimulate thoughtful discussion around contemporary art.

The latest work by Lorne Blythe, called "Temporal Composition (Hammer Breaks Glass), will be celebrated with a public reception from 5:30-6:30 p.m. May 30. The piece has already been installed.

"The fact that Window is more of a project space or platform, and really isn't a venue, per se, complicates the response, as viewers are not always exactly sure what they are seeing and/or how they should approach it," said Roe via email.

May's public opening was scheduled to coincide with with The Black Mountain College Museum' + Art Center summer exhibition opening. She said she aims to build community with Window's art neighbors on Broadway, which also includes the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design.

"There is so much potential for conversation around timely issues within the arts in that neighborhood with those two venues sitting across the street from one another," she said. "I hope Window can add to the dialogue."

Window provides a compelling challenge for Roe.

"In some ways, I suppose it's easier to simply install one work in a storefront window than to hang an entire exhibition in a brick and mortar space, but at the same time, this limitation can be a challenge," she said. "The work needs to function well in the relatively rigid format of a large rectangle, and its aesthetic and conceptual elements need to appropriately collide. I've been thrilled to be able to showcase works that artists have very purposefully designed based upon the specific parameters of the window space."

Blythe was interested in designing a piece "that is part of a new body of work dealing with expropriated industrial and scientific images — in this instance, a well known Harold Edgerton photograph of a hammer breaking a glass plate," Roe said.

"Lorne was able to re-contextualize this historic image by fabricating an entirely new work in his studio — one that aesthetically refers to the slick, commercial advertising imagery of which we are all familiar," she said. "I thought it was perfectly suited for Window as it brings together so many of the elements that Window is aiming to highlight — reference to canonical imagery, time and repetition, method/mode of display, etc."

Roe has curated the space for the last 15 months. She says the participating artists' "vastly different perspectives" have kept the experience creativity fresh.

She plans on keeping the project going for at least another year, she says — or "as long as Henco is game to continue hosting the project."

Roe said she plans to start a Gofundme crowdsourcing campaign within the next month in order to keep the project going. So far, she has not asked artists to contribute any funds toward the production and installation of the works.

"And, although all of the artists thus far have been invited to participate by myself, we now have an open call and will begin accepting proposals," she said. "I'm pretty excited about this, and we've already had a nice response."